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Monday, August 14, 2017

Sand Point VC6

Nice to visit the patch after quite a long gap. Several new species after a couple of hours in the field last thursday. Was hoping to get to 200 diptera for the patch by the end of the year which may still be possible (167 currently). Weather has prevented any further moth trapping so perhaps a waiting game for the late summer/autumn migrants.

4 comments:

Nice fly total. I pass on some of what appear to be more tricky flies because of time constraints, though I'm more inclined to focus on them now the numbers are getting up there - I don't mind giving an evening to bashing out one fly (or failing to...). Your hymenoptera seem to be moving along nicely too!

I know what you mean about the endless hours spent on failing to ID stuff. I have an increasing number of pinned stuff in a box ready to tackle in the winter. Not finding Bee's any easier than flies at the moment but only started doing them this year.